Does ANYbody write cursive anymore? Just curious....

My third grader is in the process of learning to write cursive and is consequently very proud of herself. Granted, it's standard protocol at this age, and will be required over the next several years of her schooling, but I remember at some point in my own education, giving up writing cursive and going back to printing because I liked it so much better. I don't know if it was in high school or what, but I haven't written cursive in DECADES.

Seriously, the ONLY thing I write in cursive, these days, is my signature. When I do write, I'll print it out, with upper and lower case letters. Either that, or just TYPE on my computer.

What do YOU do? Do you write cursive anymore?? Is it becoming a "lost art"? Does it even matter, in today's modern world? What are your thoughts?
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That's about it.

no doubt your pensmanship is beautiful but when i had a business selling on ebay i had to pass a rule that NO hand-written addresses, all addresses had to be typed out or emailed to me, yeah, send a money order if you want, but you still gotta email a PRINTED address that could actually be read

otherwise some people's packages would still be orbiting mars

i had too many senior customers and senior's handwriting is shit!

at least young people know they can't write cursive and print everything

I find it's faster.

of course, no one can read it but me, but people should mind their own business anyhow :)

people won't know how to write and we can take over the world by our penmanship alone! Yay...oh never mind. People do appreciate a written thank you note though.

but do you print it or write it in cursive? :shrug:

Personally, I think printing is faster, but that's just me.

I was trying to write cursive and my hand started to hurt and my writing looked like it did back in school. Got to keep it up.

cursive would take me forever.

:hi:

I honestly cannot even remember how to form some cursive letters without stopping and thinking it through.

So my printing is much faster.

But I try to print so that people can read my writing easier. :D

And I learned in first grade. I'm 21.

you must be a high-achiever. :)

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That's when they taught us. And I've got almost 11 years on the previous poster.

what year I learned, it was soooooo long ago. :eyes:

I think nowadays, though, it usually kicks in full steam around the third grade. At least that's how it is out here on the west coast.

yeah well i'm in first grade and i write in cursive

love...Laura.

O8)

:hi:

thank goddess for differences, eh?
:hi:

I mostly print, but I throw in a few cursive letters. My handwriting has always been a complete mess. I also have a tendency to interchange capital and small letters. For example, I will write "ClEveland.

I will sometimes attach a couple of letters to each other so it looks rather cursive-like.

I don't throw in capitals with small, but I'm sure that your doing it is a sign of Higher Intelligence. ;)heheh.

That's what it is. Higher intelligence..LOL

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You suck! :rofl:

You surely mean my handwriting! :rofl:

particularly with the letter "R". Interesting, eh? I make my "a's the same way you do, btw.

Aren't you THRILLED? :eyes:

But my small 'R' is smaller than my capital 'R.' I have to admit, I once saw a beautiful handwriting using it and I adopted it. I mean, if I ever write 'Rabrrrrrr', that would look really nice. :rofl:

noticed how cool it looked elsewhere and then adopted it as my own.

I believe you about "Rabrrrrrr". :)

And make a jpg of it!

I'll put it in my sigline.

that meets your standarrrrrrds, of course. ;) I'll have it ready tomorrow. :hi:

:hi:

:cry:

:impatientfoottapping:

Well, actually, I can. Sorry for sounding rude... I'm just so excited!

When I write thank you notes/card etc. it's always cursive.

And when I "write" I have to do so in certain types of notebooks with certain pens. Printing is too slow, and I can't compose anything on a computer.

It seems very inefficient, and I should just switch.

definitely by high school. It's a lost art to be sure, I love looking at those old letters from our founding fathers...they had such beautiful handwriting. Although I'm kind of ashamed to admit I have a hard time reading something written in cursive. I don't know what that says about me.

My personal handwriting is a mixture of upper and lowercase print and sometimes my "l's" and "e's" turn cursive

I agree with you about the beautiful penmanship of our founding fathers...and our own grandparents, for that matter, as well.

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I very rarely write anything by hand anymore.....

I love my computer!

But, on the rare occasion that I do write a note, I do use cursive writing...


I think it is part of me, and it pleases me to share this bit of myself with whomever I am writing...


:loveya: :hug:

I've seen it! :hug:

That's right....you HAVE seen it! For a moment, I had forgotten.....

And then I remembered...the holiday card!

Thank you, my dear Call Me Wesley......"deep curtsey"

Isn't it something? The connections we make....all due to the internet, and to DU?

Amazing......:hug:

:loveya:

It's been so long since I've written anything in cursive, it would take me forever to get anything out. I much prefer printing.

:hug: :loveya: :hi:

:hi: billy!

It's certainly readable, that's for sure. :thumbsup:

Readable eh, that sounds like a good thing! :D

:hi:

I like it very much! :hi:

But yes, it's mine. :hi:

It's just the way I have always written.

nobody can read my handwriting-- least of all me.

;) I can hardly EVER read it.

Sorry Curse, Cursive - - bad pun I know.

But seriously when I went to school they called it "joined up handwriting".

When I went to Middle School, I was forced to learn the art of calligraphy. Fountain pens were obligatory in all schoolwork. BTW: this was a State run UK school, so yes the nice uniforms etc. but no nasty school fees. Couldn't wait to get to Secondary School so I could buy those cheap biros instead. By that time my handwriting resembled our family practitioner's!

Mark.

I can write in cursive if I feel the need to, but :blush: I have forgotten what a couple of the upper case cursive letters are. I always, always had trouble with Q, z, and Z.

I print mainly but some of my letters connect in a cursive way, depending on what letters are next to eachother.

On top of that, my N's, R's, and M's, are always upper case... just smaller. My lower case q is almost always cursive. And so are my y's. My d's look cursive, but I don't mean to make them that way. It just comes out like that when I write fast.

My handwriting is pretty neat, though, I think. And I haven't come across anyone yet who cannot read it.

just to get it over with a bit faster.

If folk want - I can scan some when I get into work tomorrow.

I always hated the look of it...looks like a "2" to me. :shrug:

Shut your fucking face, uncle fucker!
You're a cock-sucking, ass-licking uncle fucker!

You shit-eating donkey raper!

You blood-belching vagina...wait, are you guys talking about something else? :blush:

Usually someone beats me to the punchline. ;)

So I can't really say whether it's cursive or not. x(

Hi Xema!!!!

:loveya:

(Did you put progmom up to kick my goodnight thread again)?

:o

carpal tunnel syndrome (which I got from typing so much on computers at work), I print every thing except my signature. It's just easier to read and, for some reason, easier for me to do.

In my school system by most teachers. Since I started cursive writing around the time that my written language skills were really developing and used it all that time, writing cursively became almost like my fluent language. When I am writing something from my thoughts, I don't think about forming the letters at all. My hand naturually forms the word. Through required typed work in college as well as my many posts on DU, typing is becoming fluent for me in the same way. As for printing, I have to think about forming the letters.

small capital letters.

My dad, who is 66, writes everything in all capital letters, too. My mom, on the other hand, has perfect penmanship and writes everything in cursive. Maybe that's why they divorced, hehehe.

:)

My cursive is usually a print/cursive hybrid, unless I'm writing something relatively formal like in a greeting card.

Gotta love nuns. They would still be teaching that Copernicus was dead wrong if the Pope hadn't told them otherwise. I'm just lucky they had decided that lefties were not satanic!

I learned Spencerian script in the early 80s. I still have excellent handwriting and use cursive almost exclusively because it's tidier for me. I don't hook my hand around, and I'm one of the few lefties I know that has decent handwriting.

If I use a good pen, I can write for hours. But I can't stand ballpoints. They make my hand hurt.

typing is just better and easier on the eyes, i don't see the point of cursive, but people do need to know the rudiments so they can develop a signature and maybe read their grandmother's old love letters

not much good for anything else and you will meet kids and teens who can't write cursive at all

it probably isn't of much use and prob. a lot of time shouldn't be devoted to teaching it these days

I guess the common consensus is that it's "easier" to write, but not necessarily "easier" to read. heheheh.

As I mentioned above, in my school system, we were required to turn in work in cursive (stuff that wasn't typed) and write tests that way all through school. In high school, there were some teachers who didn't care, but some did so it was easier to stay cursive. In elementary school, it was strictly required (failed the assignmentin print). I graduated high school in 1996. It was a public school.

Mostly, I print but often I mix cursive and printing because the cursive is quicker - it flows together. I hardly ever write by hand anymore though because within minutes, my fingers cramp up. :hi:

my left hand--completely illegible.

But otherwise, I use, like most people probably do, a uniquely personal scribbling that's a mix of print, cursive, and symbols.

But I do think it's becoming a lost art - older people, esp. women, I notice, still use cursive in most of their notes and handwriting stuff, whether it be personal notetaking for their own use, a recipe, or a letter to a friend.

And when I write in cursive, I have to be very deliberate about it. It's not a natural thing for me, and if I'm not careful, it becomes very unreadable to others. And even when it's legible, it's not pretty.

Which is sad - good handwriting is something that I wish I had. But even with a lot of practice, and being careful, it's never beautiful.

to me that is writing, printing is "printing". :shrug:

:grr:

I studied cursive a year earlier than my classmates, but I stopped using it as soon as doing so didn't get me in trouble with the teacher. It has always annoyed me.

which is why it's strange to have my daughter ask me how to write certain letters and I so don't care anymore! LOL.

right down the toilet. I print/write - half and half. My son has learned to write in cursive, but it does kind of irrelevant, doesn't it?

and yes, it does seem irrelevant these days. But, I've been surprised by this thread and how many people apparently still do use cursive writing.

I do the combo thang, too. Not really cursive, but my printing sometimes connects letters.

:hi: tigereye! :hug:

too bad we can't have coffee sometime, I bet that would be fun! :hi:

What's new? My kid has spring break next 2 weeks, so I'm looking for some fun stuff to do.

plus my birthday is in 11 days! :bounce: :party: :woohoo:

My kids don't have spring break til April and they only get a week off.

Yeah, I bet we'd have fun hangin' out together, tigereye. :hug:

My husband and kid are Ares. So are 2 of my brothers. I'm surrounded by em.

We always get the school spring break a bit early, I guess we are supposed to go to Bermuda or somethin....:D

I'll take my sloppy, fucked-up print any day.

:P

"I abhor cursive." LOL! :rofl:

"Abhor" is SUCH a good word. :thumbsup: heheheh.

Right up there with "despise"...

:D

:rofl:

:hi:

you're a study in contradictions.... :P

;)

If it's notes for myself, I use a combo printing/writing style. If it's for someone else, (like a card) I use cursive.

;)

:hi:

Throughout elementary school they made it seem like a big deal so we just wrote in cursive. Once we entered Junior High most of us dropped cursive (myself included). Now, in High School, I don't see anyone use cursive. I only use it in my signature.

I'll be curious to see what my own kids (ages 9 & 12) end up doing.....

Time will tell....

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I've developed a hybrid. It works for me. I mostly have to just sign my name anyway.
Duckie

but I really don't write by hand much--mostly on my computer.

It's just faster for me. My penmanship is messy too.;)

mostly: thank you notes, hand-written letters and of course my signature.

But to take notes or simply write down something, I print. It's faster. And if I can possibly help it, I type rather than write by hand at all. It saves me last scrapes of paper and I can type faster than print.

I have a writing disability so starting in the third grade I started typing all of my work and assignments so said teachers decided there was no point in teaching me cursive.

I can write my name in cursive but that's it.

by the time I entered college. I studied to be a draftsman for like six years, so I'd gotten used to a blueprint style of lettering and had started to develop my own sort of architectural style.

Then I switched majors to journalism and started scrawling notes, and before long that precise lettering was history. :blush: I can still do it, but I have to put effort into it.

Yeah — I think the Palmerian script we learned in first grade is passé. WTF was up with all those curliques, anyway?

she's all proud of herself. They're working their way through the alphabet...

It'll be interesting to see if either of my kids use it as they get older and our society depends more and more on computer technology to communicate.

Time will tell...

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And I'll still use it sometimes, depends on my mood and the situation. I like to think that my handwriting, both print and cursive, is fairly legible, but I still tend to print if other people are going to read it. Especially people I don't know. First impressions and all that, I suppose.

Remember having to sit at your desk in school with both feet flat on the floor and the paper slanted just so and copying out letter after letter after letter until they were perfect every time? And a category on your report card, marked "Penmanship?"

Or is that just me?

until you reminded me. :rofl:

Yup, so loooong ago....

Welcome to DU, btw, reyd reid reed! :toast:

:-)

I print in Caps and small caps. Or computer, which is even better because it has a spell check in addition to being readable.

There wasn't time for the teachers to get into that stuff, with two grades in each room.

Redstone

talk about your "combo-classes"....

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try to write in cursive, it's totally illegible. My signature is illegible. I used to have decent handwriting; I don't know what happened. When I find things I wrote years ago, I can't believe it's my writing!

Not on purpose, though.

I was like WTF? Who writes this way anymore? Right when they are just starting to print legibly the school says hmmmmm nah, lets learn this NEW useless way to do it, just to screw with your little heads....


They should be learning to type, not write in some unreadable code ... belongs in an art class if you ask me.

I must say, learning how to type in high school was one of the most valuable lessons I learned.

It seems weird, indeed, to have them learn something they won't really need much later. However, I've been surprised in this thread by reading how many apparently still DO write cursive.

Me? I kinda do the hybrid thing. It's basically printing, but some of the letters are attached, almost cursive-like.

It's mostly cursive, but with print letters thrown in, depending on the letter and it's position in the word. I still haven't figured out all the rules of my system, but it seems to work for me :)

sounds good to me! :thumbsup:

:hi: :hug:

I prefer it, it's faster.

For other people I think I pretty much always print because people would not be able to read my cursive.